How big is this computer, compared to starship computer cores?

Oh, quite a lot bigger.

(Did you honestly expect an exact figure for a fictional object???)

Considering that the largest size we can rate data at right now (at least given a name that is) is the Yottabyte (YB) which is One quadrillion Gigabytes. At this point we have not even reached one-one thousandth of a yottabyte. Thats combining all recoreded data on every hard drive from every machine on this planet at this time.

But considering the rapid increase of data every year it will only be a few short decades till we reach that number and have to come up with even newer names for higher ammounts of storage sizes. So you are right to not even attempt to put a number out there.

Interesting enough by best measurement to transport one human from one point to anothere by teleportation the data bandwidth would need to be able to transfer 909 Petabytes of data as by best estimate that is the average size needed to properly record the human body in a given state at a given time. Imagine how much more for a taur being much larger mass and complexity :p

It quickly becomes a mind boggling number.

Best not to try to quanitfy it any more then need be.


By the way loving the Chakona Series pics. Seth is an awesome artist and at some point all the pics should be cataloged into one article to be put on the Den.

Work has already started on putting those pics into an article on the Den. It's called "Building Chakona". You'll have to be patient however. I have plenty of work on my plate.

I have no doubts you are busy. You are a very busy kat indeed =^.^= I look forward to the article. But I do so patiently, take as much time as you need Shir.

Forgot to mention - that's why they don't generally store people's transporter patterns - they just take far too much memory.

On that subject... then a computer supporting the Oceanwalker Process would be quite enormous, with the patterns for dozens of bodies and species stored indefinitely like that.

I think the core for the new Legacy-class starship will be up to the task though. It'll be at least 8 decks high (a deck being 5 meters from floor to the next floor), maybe taller... and wide as a house.
And that's just the main core. That doesn't count the backup cores, and there may be a dedicated one for the aforementioned Process too.

One possibility is that only the brain is stored at 'quantum-level' resolution for a very short amount of time. The subject's body and the other template patterns, on the other hand, could be stored at relatively low-resolution and highly-compressed.

The only concern about a transporter is that the original body is destroyed, and you're just a copy of a copy of a copy, depending on how often you've transported. I can see why Dr Bones never liked using the transporter.

No doubt there are myriad philosophical implications, not the least of which is 'what makes me me', but then you run into the same problems in any number of mundane scenarios as well.

Definitely true there. I'd imagine that whenever they would actually invent a working transporter (beyond what IBM has now), that many Christians would refuse to use it because of questions such as "What would happen to my soul when I was transported since my transported body is a copy?"

In the chakat universe, a transporter uses a "mind-matrix" to capture a holographic image of a person's memories and personality... while the body's physical pattern is stored and transmitted separately.

The body is turned into something like plasma, and sent to the other place as an energy beam. The matter going in is the same matter that comes out, so there's no copying or destruction involved.

It's a bit different from the Star Trek version.
See Transformations, part 1 for the sci-fi technobabble.

It definitely is quite the complicated process (and you've got me reading the rest of the story)

Excellent...

Well, what can I say, I've always liked taurs, even though I personally wouldn't want to be one.

I can understand that. I like humans, but I wouldn't like to be one... oh, drat. >.<

LOL. Darn real life.

Though, that was mainly meant as a fursona, heh.

Actually, I've decided to turn my fursona into a wolf-taur.

Chakats: corrupting the world, one taur at a time.

Now, I need to find someone good at doing a sketch of it.

Thanks for the reminder. I've read all the stories, but I admit it's been awhile.

Even so, while the details are different, the overall concept is identical (and even ST appropriated it from earlier sci-fi).

I like all these pictures. They really make Chakona come alive.

I'd love to run World of Warcraft on those computers. I'd be able to set all the graphics and effects to their maximum settings no problem.

*whistles* Oh wow o.o those computers are amazing